The use of ozone to control trihalomethanes in drinking water treatment

Ozone: Science & Engineering

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 1980, Pages 75-99

  Rice, Rip G ^a  

^a JACOBS ENGINEERING   (United States)

Author keywords

chlorination of natural organic materials; drinking water; humic and fulvic acids; organic oxidation products; Ozonation; trihalomethane control; trihalomethane precursors

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL REACTIONS; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

TRIHALOMETHANES;

WATER TREATMENT;

EID: 0019184253     PISSN: 01919512     EISSN: 15476545     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01919518008550870     Document Type: Article

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